Birds or Kids?
Last Saturday as I was running late and frantically trying to get things loading in the car to head to the bird park that I run I was finding my Blue Crown Conure “Remi” to be quite difficult.
As most of you know when it comes to kids or birds the further behind schedule you are the more difficult they will be to deal with. Well as usual I loaded the car and came back in to get Remi and Oliver (my Quaker) as they normally go to the park with me.
Well, Remi refuses to come out of his cage, he begins to threaten me as if he was going to bite and then tries climbing out of reach in his cage. All the time I am fussing at him that I am running late and he needed to step up and behave.
After a few minutes of watching this Oliver blurts out “Oooo, Mama’s gonna kill you!” “Come on!” I stopped immediately and look over just as Oliver repeated himself once again. Now don’t get me wrong Oliver often speaks in full sentences and uses them in proper context but at that moment I knew just what my teenager had been telling his 10 year old little brother while I wasn’t home!
Of course when I later confronted my children they both turned a little red in the cheeks and that was all I needed to know. Ah, the birds have it again!
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About the Author: Allison Sorensen is the Director at Uncle Sandy’s Macaw Bird Park and shares her home with a wonderful husband, two great boys, a dog, rabbit and multiple birds(depending on the day). The park began back in 1992 and has grown rapidly about three years ago when 7 macaws exposed to a virus during research tests were about to be euthanized even though they had not contracted the disease the park step in a gave them a home. Today, over 80 parrots are loved and cared for at the park and some are available for adoption. Learn more about Uncle Sandy’s Macaw Bird Park at http://www.macawbirdpark.com and come visit if you are in the Pensacola, FL area. Volunteers are always welcome!
